PublicationsFounding Friendships: Friendships Between Men and Women in America’s Founding Era, 1780-1830 (Oxford University Press, 2015)
Winner of the 2016 Organization of American Historians Mary Jurich Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women’s and/or Gender History

Defining the “family of WASHINGTON,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), July 2016

“The Gift of Friendship: Rituals of Exchange in Heterosocial Friendships of the Early American Republic,” Smithsonian American Art Museum brownbag series, April 1, 2016 [invited lecture]

“Making the Historical Personal: The Founding Fathers, Gender, and the Cultural Turn, ” Society for U.S. Intellectual History, Washington, DC, October 2015

“James Monroe and the Passions of Foreign Policy,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Policy, Arlington, VA, June 2015

“The ‘Amazonian Wife’: The Politics, Loves, and Public Image of Eliza Custis Law,” Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture/Society of Early Americanists Joint Annual Conference, Chicago, June 2015

“Founding Friendships at the Library of Congress,” Women’s History Discussion Group, Library of Congress, June 5, 2014

“Making Friends, Making Gender: Friendships Between Men and Women in the Atlantic World,” Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Annual Conference, June 2013.

“Friends in Power: Early American First Ladies’ Friendships with Men,” Double Lives of the First Ladies Conference, Texas State University-San Marcos, March 1, 2013.

“ ‘You would exert your friendship for us’: Friendships Between Men and Women in the Early Republic,” presented at the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), July 2012

“Between Friends: Rules and Rituals of Gift Exchange Between Heterosocial Friends,” presented at the Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies Graduate Student Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, November 17, 2011.

“Friends and Lovers: Friendship and Romance in Mixed-Sex Friendships in the Early American Republic,” presented at the Newberry Library, Scholl Center, Seminar on Women and Gender, October 24, 2011

“‘The Specious Name of Friend’: Representations of Heterosocial Friendship in the Literature of Sensibility,” presented at the Colloquium on Early American Literature and Culture, New York University, March 23, 2011

“Faithful Friends: The Sacred Ties of Heterosocial Friendship in the Early American Republic,” American Historical Association conference, January 9, 2011

“Friendly Relations: Situating Cross-Gender Friendships in the Early Republic,” McNeil Center for Early American Studies, September 22, 2010

“The Course of True Friendship Never Did Run Smooth: James Monroe and George Washington’s Evolving Relationship,” Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington Teacher Institute, August 6, 2014

Session Organizer and Chair, James Monroe, Life and Legacy Symposium, University of Mary Washington, October 19, 2013

“Female Friends of the Founders,” Second Annual Women’s History Lecture, James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library, March 27, 2013

Teaching Experience

Instructor, The World of James Monroe Spring 2013, 2016
University of Mary Washington

Designed course for credit in History, American Studies, and Historic Preservation

Cultural history of the early American republic using objects from the James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library

Instructor, Cultural History of Early America Fall 2014
George Washington University

Problem-based sophomore/junior level course in which students read and analyze scholarly articles

Lecture course with 120 students; supervised four teaching assistants

Instructor, US in the World to 1865 Summer 2010
University of Pennsylvania

Designed and taught an online version of the first half of the US history survey

Teaching Assistant, Department of History 2008-2009
University of Pennsylvania

Taught US in the World to 1865, US in the World since 1865, and History of Africa, 1800-present

Developed lessons for and led weekly discussion sections

Participated in design of evaluation materials and graded exams and essays

Qualified to teach/examination fields: American History to 1877, Gender in Early America, Historical Anthropology (ABD June 2008)

Professional Service

Member, Working Group II 2016
Congressional Commission on the National Women’s History Museum